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Improper Input Validation

CVE-2026-40466

Severity High
Score 8.8/10

Summary

Improper Input Validation, Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ Broker, Apache ActiveMQ All, Apache ActiveMQ. An authenticated attacker may bypass the fix in CVE-2026-34197 by adding a connector using an HTTP Discovery transport via "BrokerView.addNetworkConnector" or "BrokerView.addConnector" through Jolokia if the activemq-http module is on the classpath. A malicious HTTP endpoint can return a VM transport through the HTTP URI which will bypass the validation added in CVE-2026-34197. The attacker can then use the VM transport's brokerConfig parameter to load a remote Spring XML application context using ResourceXmlApplicationContext. Because Spring's ResourceXmlApplicationContext instantiates all singleton beans before the BrokerService validates the configuration, arbitrary code execution occurs on the broker's JVM through bean factory methods such as "Runtime.exec()". This issue affects Apache ActiveMQ Broker: prior to 5.19.6, from 6.0.0 prior to 6.2.5; Apache ActiveMQ All: prior to 5.19.6, from 6.0.0 prior to 6.2.5; Apache ActiveMQ: prior to 5.19.6, from 6.0.0 prior to 6.2.5. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 5.19.6 or 6.2.5, which fixes the issue.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published